If you’ve ever found yourself worrying that you worry too much, well, worry not. According to a new study published in the academic journal Personality and Individual Differences, there’s a link between anxiety and intelligence. Worrying, it turns, may mean you’re smarter than the happy-go-lucky among us who glide through life stress-free.

Researchers surveyed 126 undergrads about their feelings towards things like worry, anxiety, depression, rumination, and social phobia. (Phew!) The participants were then ranked on the Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Interestingly, those who agreed with the statement "I am always worrying about something" scored much higher on the latter.

Unsurprisingly, participants with high verbal intelligence—which, by definition, means “the ability to analyze information” and which we all know is a nice way of saying “the ability to obsess over stuff”—tended to worry the most.

You’ve always been told that you’re not supposed to sweat the small stuff (did your parents have that old self-help classic on the bookshelf, too?), but this new info suggests that worrying isn’t such a bad thing after all.

That’s not to say you should abandon yoga, cancel your therapy sessions, and quit meditating in order to fully embrace your worries. Studies aside, there’s still such a thing as fretting too much and untreated anxiety is a serious thing that’s not good for your health, much less your brain.

This research merely says that if you are prone to worrying, you shouldn’t worry about it. So stop worrying! But not too much.